Tuesday, November 22, 2016

5 Off My Head: Siri Says 1982

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Welcome to our weekly (or whenever the hell I feel like doing it) series called "Siri Says When" -- last week when I asked Siri to pick a number between 1 and 100 she gave me 80 - today she gave me 82. And truth be told I'm kind of glad that Siri has stuck me in the early 1980s just now because this stuff is comfort food - I was a little kid and blissfully unaware that we had a horrible president, and I would like to pretend now, even if only for a few moments, that I am blissfully unaware of what a horrible president we're about to have.

Of course now that I've gone and made my choices from the movies of 1982 they're mostly all dark adult films (save one) that would've terrified me as a kid(I mean, two Fassbinders!) so even I can't stick to my escapist principles for very long. Oh well. The heart wants what it wants and apparently what my heart wants is to churn and ache and bleed. Happy thoughts!

While I liked Poltergeist and The Year of Living Dangerously, these are my choices:E.T. (made me cry)Star Trek II: The Wrath of GodThe Verdict The Dark CrystalThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (a vastly entertaining movie)Victor/VictoriaMy Favorite YearA Midsummer Night's Sex ComedyThe World According to Garpand the very quirky and funny Eating Raoul

I would put The Year of Living Dangerously and Blade Runner in the Top Five. Living Dangerously got sloppy in the end, but it was otherwise exciting and beautiful filmmaking. And Blade Runner? Fucking brilliant. It was the future, the aesthetic source of countless sci fi - AI films to come. It's probably Ridley Scott's best film (along with Alien).

I've always wanted to like Blade Runner more than I actually ever like Blade Runner when I am watching it. I feel like maybe one day it will snap into place for me, but it hasn't yet. It admittedly has been a few years since I have watched it and with the sequel coming out I need to give it another go.

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